 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1853 - 566 pages
...admitted one of the senior proctors of the university in April, 1752. Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery,...fixed his residence in his native village, where he «pent the greater part of his life in literary occupations, and especially in the study of natural... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1857 - 864 pages
...admitted one of the senior proctors of the university in April, 1752. Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery,...literary occupations, and especially in the study of natural history, a taste for which his writings have contributed to generate and diffuse. He died in... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1858 - 454 pages
...admitted one of the senior Proctors of the Unirersity in April, 1752. Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery,...study is so well calculated to afford. Though several occasions offered of settling upon a college living, he could never persuade himself to quit the heloved... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1860 - 356 pages
...admitted one of the senior Proctors of the University in April, 1752. Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery,...literary occupations, and especially in the study of Xciture. This he followed with a patient assiduity, and a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...few words prefixed to a new edition of the History of Selborne: — ' Of an unambitious temper and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery,...native village, where he spent the greater part of his life in rural occupations and the study of Nature. Though several occasions offered of settling upon... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...few words prefixed to a new edition of the History of Selborne : — ' Of an unambitious temper and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery,...occupations and especially in the study of Nature. Though several occasions offered of settling upon a College living, he could never persuade himself... | |
 | Edward Jesse - Animal behavior - 1877 - 422 pages
...to the charms of rural scenery, and early fixed his residence in his native village, where ho spent the greater part of his life in literary occupations, and especially in the study of nature, which he followed with patient assiduity, and with a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and benevolence... | |
 | John Stoughton - Great Britain - 1878 - 434 pages
...to his works tells his tale with appropriate simplicity : — " Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery,...especially in the study of nature. This he followed with a patient assiduity, and a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and benevolence which such a study... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 pages
...April, 1752. Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scetiery, he early fixed his residence in his native village,...especially in the study of nature. This he followed with a patient assiduity, and a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and benevolence, which such a study... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1880 - 554 pages
...as one of the senior proctor's of the University in April, 1752. Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery,...especially in the study of nature. This he followed with a patient assiduity, and a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and benevolence, which such a study... | |
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Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery, he early fixed his residence in his native village, where he spent the greater part of his life in literary occupations, and especially in the study of nature. This... 
